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School Teacher Doesn't Honor His Word

100 years ago, schools taught moral character. At the heart of that was keeping one's oral word.

So it was ironic that this week a school teacher, Stephen Davis, who had agreed to teach a course with us four times over the next year, abruptly and in the middle of the first offering just quit, not honoring our agreement and of course his word.

Today most people simply ignore honoring one's word, no longer believed to be a value of worth in today's non-agrarian society. But teachers today are still believing in the outmoded code of "responsibility" that was central to the industrial age and factory of the last century.